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It also offered horseback riding along the resort’s dirt trails, swimming in a huge outdoor pool, clay tennis courts, casino gambling, an antiques shop, and even a movie theater for the guests.

They also uncovered a bronze sword and scores of bronze bowls, clay dishes, and other pottery.

In the small southeast QLD town of Murgon, scientists have spent decades excavating what appears to be an ordinary clay pit in a local grazier's backyard.

But it was art therapist Robert Morrissey who first put a lump of clay into her hands and encouraged her to do something with it.

Shonibare's Monument to the Restitution of the Mind and Soul has pride of place - a pyramid-shaped unit featuring more than 150 clay replicas of the Benin Bronzes.